Luther felt the reform of the church could not simply remain a matter of aesthetics and practice. Something much deeper needed to be rooted out.
While God can, and often does, appear to people face to face, he also often employs the use of several types of messengers.
The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.

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When sin comes out of the shadows and makes itself known, Christians can rest in and declare Christ's resurrection.
The Second Edition of “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?” by Steven Hein is now available from 1517 Publishing.
For all mankind, the answer is terrifically simple and remains the same: God wants to turn us towards the cross and then turn us back to our neighbors.
The grace of God does not save us at the beginning only in order to keep ourselves in his good graces by our good enough readiness.
We do not have to endure the pain and suffering of this fallen existence forever, just for a little while.
The good news is Christ Jesus is faithful to the end, even to the point of death and through death, with a steadfast and vocal faith in God our Savior for those who cannot do so in their lives any longer on account of their altered state.
With the resurrection of the Christ the mystery of life after death became a lot less mysterious.
The Holy Spirit is sent, not to talk about himself, but to point us to Jesus.
There is no life when one is separated from the Promised Land because that will be the place where God will send His Messiah.
Death may speak, and its voice may sound authoritative and decisive. Nonetheless, it is a mere whimper from the grave.
Ash Wednesday, is meant to remind us we have a death problem. All living things made from the soil shall return to it.
The paradoxical Puritan doctrines of an inability to convert oneself and the command to work out one’s salvation with fear and trembling placed would-be converts like Mather in quite a bind.